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    A Beginner's Guide To The Rapha Festive 500

    A Beginner's Guide To The Rapha Festive 500

    Whatever your opinion of Rapha (and nearly everyone has one), it's hard to argue that the Festive 500 is not a good thing. Riding your bike more is generally considered to be a good thing, so joining a world wide challenge to help you ride your bike more can only add to that good thing. 

    But what is the Rapha Festive 500? This being it's 10th year, the #festive500 (you have to use a hashtag every time you type it, it's the law) is a self set challenge to ride 500km in 8 days. Sounds pretty ok, right? 62.5km per day doesn't sound bad, what's the big deal? Well, those 8 days happen to fall in between Christmas Eve and New Years Eve!

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    The Festive FUNdred Challenge

    The Festive FUNdred Challenge

    The Festive 500 is a great challenge to take on during the Christmas period, but it is bloomin' hard work.

    Riding 500km in 8 days, including Christmas Eve, Day and NYE, is a serious commitment. Especially when the in-laws are likely to pop over unannounced on a random day too, probably just after you've put all your winter kit on.

    There are also lots of alternative options to the Festive 500 - like Cold Dark North's Festive 50 (ride 50km over the period, if you feel like it). We wholeheartedly support these initiatives too. 

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    Cycling Christmas Gift List 2022 - What to buy the cyclist in your life!

    Cycling Christmas Gift List 2022 - What to buy the cyclist in your life!

    The time of year where we have to impress our loved ones with Christmas gifts is upon us. And few people are as hard to impress as cyclists!

    Every year, poor unsuspecting non-cyclists have to rack their brains to buy their loved ones something that they a). really want and b). don't already have.

    It's the second part that's so hard - they already have so many subscriptions, gadgets and funny bits of kit! How are you supposed to know what the cyclist in your life actually needs? 

    If you're looking for the perfect cycling Christmas gift for 2022 then read on. If you have questions then get in touch, we're here to help.

    You will notice that our list does not contain generic bits of cycling kit, gadgets or things like 'new wheels'. This is very much on purpose - we believe in the experiences not things mantra.

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    Black Friday 2023 Deal - 50% Off Annual Club Membership

    Black Friday 2023 Deal - 50% Off Annual Club Membership

    Love it or hate it, Black Friday is a thing. We ummed and ahhed about doing a Black Friday deal this year, but decided to go ahead on the premise that it will help people get into group cycling, or save some money in a time when things are a bit shit. 

    So there you have it, our reason for joining the Black Friday circus. Read on for details of our 50% off BFCM deal.

    Yeah it's 50% off. That's about the long and short of it. So that's full access to the club membership for just £19.50. That's £1.60 per month. 

    Club membership includes:

    • Every group ride through the year
    • Regular events, sportives, bikepacking trips and holidays
    • Our ginormous global route database
    • 10-50% off discount codes with our awesome partners
    • Full access to the members forum and app
    • Access to support and knowledge of over 1000 members
    • Be part of the only 50/50 gender split CC in the world (that we know of!)

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    New Years Revolution Challenge - Build up to riding 100km in January 2023

    New Years Revolution Challenge - Build up to riding 100km in January 2023

    To help you stick to your new year fitness resolutions and to keep you riding in the January (and because we like organising fun group rides), we're again running our New Years Revolution series for January 2023 

    Whether you're a beginner cyclist looking for the help and support of a group or an experienced rider looking for some motivation; we can help you ride more in January.

    The premise is very simple - a 'no drop' group ride every Saturday in January, with the distance building up each week, leading to a 100km ride.

    With the help of the group and our ride leaders you will get the support and motivation to get out on the road. There will be multiple 'no drop' groups (no one left behind) for all levels.

    You will meet a great group of cyclists who will make the rides loads of fun You might even forget it is January. Maybe.

     

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    Physiotherapy for Cyclists in London with Bodyset

    Physiotherapy for Cyclists in London with Bodyset

    To make the most of the outdoors this summer, I wanted to cram in one last challenge.

    I felt satisfied that I’d done lots of endurance cycling and wanted something slightly different. When fellow Dirty Wknd member Lottie mentioned she wanted to do a half ironman distance triathlon, my ears pricked up – a triathlon sounded like the right amount of challenging type 2 fun.

    We signed up with only 6 weeks to train for the event which was slightly daunting but we both completed our first 70.3 triathlon!

    Mentally and physically, it was blooming hard. 6 weeks is not a very long time to train your muscles to transition from purely cycling to swim, cycle and run… WITHOUT A CAFE STOP!

    I’m also not that much of a runner – my longest distance I’d ever run before was 10km and that wasn’t recently. My muscles hadn’t really built up over time to take the impact of the training and the half marathon run itself.

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